Chapter 485

Chapter 485:

“One day. Give me one day to decide.”

The Guardian was quiet for a long moment. “Twenty-four hours. But Alexander, remember what’s at stake here. This isn’t about your marriage or your personal feelings for Camille. This is about seventeen innocent people who deserve justice. This is about making sure your uncle’s death meant something.”

Alexander walked away without responding, his footsteps echoing off the concrete pier. Behind him, the Guardian melted back into the shadows between the shipping containers.

As Alexander drove home through empty streets, his mind churned with conflicting emotions. The evidence against Victoria seemed solid. The Guardian’s passion for justice felt genuine. But something about targeting the Lewis family felt wrong, even if they were protecting a killer.

His uncle really had died believing Victoria Kane was responsible for destroying his life. The factory explosion really had killed seventeen people. The cover-up really had protected Victoria while the victims’ families suffered without answers.

But Camille was innocent. Her parents were innocent. They didn’t know about Victoria’s alleged crimes, didn’t understand what kind of woman they were protecting.

Alexander pulled into his empty penthouse garage and sat in his car for a long moment. He couldn’t undo what he’d done to Camille. He couldn’t repair the trust he’d shattered or take back the surveillance photos or erase the months of lies.

But maybe he could ensure that his uncle’s death and the deaths of seventeen innocent people finally received the justice they deserved.

Even if it meant destroying the family of the woman he’d already lost forever.

As Alexander rode the elevator to his empty apartment, he realized he was facing the most important decision of his life: honor his uncle’s memory and seek justice for mass murder victims, or protect the family of the woman whose heart he’d already broken.

Twenty-four hours to choose between justice and mercy. Twenty-four hours to decide whether love was stronger than the need for revenge. Twenty-four hours to determine what kind of man he truly was.

Richard Lewis sat in his private study at three in the morning, surrounded by documents that painted a picture of calculated betrayal. The mahogany desk his grandfather had built was covered with financial reports, digital surveillance evidence, and communication records that told a story no father should ever have to read.

𝘾𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙠 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨: g𝗮𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀[․]𝗰𝗼𝗺

His daughter’s husband had been systematically destroying Kane Industries. The man Camille had trusted with her heart, her future, her most vulnerable moments, had been photographing Victoria at their wedding and stealing security plans during their honeymoon.

Richard’s hands trembled as he read through the final piece of evidence: an advance copy of a press release scheduled to go live in six hours. The headline made his blood run cold: Kane Industries CEO Victoria Kane Linked to Cover-Up of Factory Deaths – Exclusive Investigation Reveals Decades of Corporate Murder.

The release contained detailed allegations about a factory explosion fifteen years ago, claiming Victoria had bribed safety inspectors and destroyed evidence to protect her company’s reputation. It painted her as a cold-blooded killer who valued profits over human lives.

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